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Reduced Electron and Proton Data

NSSDC ID: SPMS-00277

Availability: At NSSDC, Ready for Offline Distribution (or Staging if Digital)

Time span: 1962-07-09 to 1963-02-21

Description

This reduced data set from the BTL experiment, generated with the BESYS monitor at Bell Telephone Laboratories, is on 800-bpi, 7-track, IBM 7094, odd-parity magnetic tapes. Each file on these tapes contains a BCD header record. The rest of the tape is binary. The logical record length is 54 (36-bit) words. Each record contains ephemeris and time information, model magnetic field, McIlwain L, and satellite state data such as skin temperature, detector temperature, etc. Also presented are (1) count rates from the electron detector in each bias mode, with interpolated values of B, L, and gammma (where gamma is the angle between the spacecraft spin axis and model field direction), and (2) count rates from the two proton detectors in each bias mode with corresponding values of B, L, and gamma. The data are time ordered.

Alternate Names

  • BESYS Tapes

Discipline

  • Space Physics: Magnetospheric Studies

Old NSSDC ID

  • 62-029A-01A

Additional Information

Spacecraft

Experiments

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